Saturday, July 2, 2011

The fall of Napoleon

1810: economic disaster, famine, manufacturing crisis, military failures, the collapse of domestic support for the too many taxes and conscription. 1813: defeat at Leipzig, 1814: Paris captured and Napoleon exiled to the island of Elba. Called Louis XVIII who signs pact with the European powers to return to the borders of 1792, He also gives a constitution to the people of France. 1815: Napoleon returns to France (100 days). Napoleon failed this time and June 18, 1815 was defeated for the last time at Waterloo and exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic by the British.

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